But _ and this is an important but _ this two-hour movie is buried alive inside a terribly dull four-hour sweeps miniseries, which airs this Sunday and next at 9 p . m . You'll need to indulge in some serious multitasking _ pull out those knitting needles, plug in the percolator _ if you want to discover the life inside this etherized drama.
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In " Like a Rainfall ", Fishelov offered a model for describing poetic similes ( e . g ., T . S . Eliot's " the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table " ) as a cluster of functional deviations from the norms of trite, nonpoetic similes ( e . g ., " it is as good as gold " ).
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For example, " When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table " ( lines 2 3 ), the " sawdust restaurants " and " cheap hotels, " the yellow fog, and the afternoon " Asleep . . . tired . . . or it malingers " ( line 77 ), are reminiscent of languor and decay, while Prufrock's various concerns about his hair and teeth, as well as the mermaids " Combing the white hair of the waves blown back / When the wind blows the water white and black, " show his concern over aging.
